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friends of hers who were with her the night she was last seen tell me they have received confirmation from authorities that it is her. an suv and pulled out of the prosser creek reservoir in truckee late sunday afternoon. authorities go so far as to cover the windows with tarps so that no one could see inside. this comes hours after divers who are part of a private search group on youtube called adventures with purpose posted to facebook saying, "we just found kiely rodni. car is upside down in only 14 feet of water. family notified. law enforcement on the way." the nevada county sheriff's office only saying, "we are on scene and working with adventures with purpose to locate and remove the vehicle in question. from a distance, you can see the vehicle taken out of the water looks just like the vehicle she

was in, the 16-year-old who was at a party on august 6, one that is said to be just a few yards away from where this car was found. adventures with purpose had only been searching for 24 hours when they cling to have found her. days after she went missing, a friend of hers told me in a zoom conversation that kiely was heavily intoxicated and would have been unable to drive away on the dirt road the party was on. a friend told me sunday she and others are heartbroken. so many questions tonight. the main being -- is this kiely rodni? if so, how was she missed during these first searches? was sonar used on that water initially? how thorough was the initial search or was the vehicle even there the whole time? there is a press conference

scheduled for 11:00 a.m. monday morning. dion: still so many questions. much appreciated. adventures with purpose was featured earlier this year on abc's "nightline." its founders explain how they got into roaming the country and searching for people. >> i started a youtube series called adventures with purpose in july 2018. it was getting in the water, showing what was out of sight, out of mind, picking up pop cans, anything i can find. >> when did you make that shift, trying to clean up the bottom of the lake to trying to find pieces of evidence from previous cases and find human bodies? >> it became a calling. when a family reached out to me in fall 2018. they had seen these videos we were putting up on youtube was finding vehicles and pulling them out of the water. they reached out and said, we

have a lost loved one. we believe he was in the water. can you come help us because nobody else is helping us? dion: on its website, adventures with purpose says it has helped solve 23 missing cases since 2019. we sent out a breaking news alert on the discovery just after 5:00 p.m. the abc 7 news app is one way to stay on top of stories like this one. moving on to developing news in oakland where an elderly asian woman was killed in an attempted robbery in the little saigon neighborhood. police take it happen around 2:45 this afternoon on avenue near 11th street. sources tell me the woman and her partner were at their parked car at the time. the little saigon neighborhood and the surrounding area has seen a string of crimes recently, including the deadly shooting of an uber driver last month and several business

burglaries. also in oakland, a man's body was found at about 5:30. investigators say he suffered blunt-force trauma, and at this time, they are treating his death as a homicide. no other details are available right now. one person was killed is a triple shooting in san francisco's mission district. police say there were three people with gunshot wounds and a fourth person with other injuries. one of the gunshot victims died at the hospital. no arrests have been made. people from across california fighting to prevent deaths caused by drug overdoses took their message to san francisco city hall today. they held a rally in honor of national prevention and awareness day. more than 2100 people have died from overdoses of fentanyl in san francisco since 2019. speakers included first responders, recovering addicts,

and parents of fentanyl users. >> my son struggled with mental illness, and i believe he was trying to self medicate. and then all the sudden comes fentanyl, and that was the end for him. dion: today's crowd also heard from the san francisco district attorney. >> just a few weeks ago, i announced new policies with respect to the way we will handle drug sales cases, particularly fentanyl cases, and that no longer will we have decriminalized the sale of such a deadly and potent drug. dion: today's event was put on by the organization mothers against drug deaths. a mother of a seventh grade student is scared to send her daughter back to school after she was brutally attacked on campus by another classmate. as dustin dorsey explains, after several other incidents, the mother is calling on the school to take safety more seriously.

and a warning -- some may find this video disturbing. >> new year, newschool, new safety concerns for a south san jose seventh grader, just days after they return to campus. this graphic video from tuesday captures the moment say female student punches another girl repeatedly in the head. the school and school district are both aware of the video, and the victim's mother has shown police and held a report, but it is still almost too much to handle and she watches it back. how do you feel when you see this? >> i don't think i have words for what i feel. just the thought of it. every night, i cry myself to sleep. >> the student responsible for the attack was suspended for two days and the other girl suffered a concussion from the fight. both girls returned to campus on friday when another threat was

made. >> i got a call from school administrators that they had that something happened at lunchtime, and it did not happen because she had so many adult eyes on her. >> -- staff sent out a notice to parents addressing this and several other incidents at the school this year. it's a in part, "we really need your help by having a conversation at home with your children about safety." staff called on the students to speak up to help prevent fights. >> this is heartbreaking. i don't feel comfortable taking my daughter to school. she's not safe. >> the leaders -- the letter later said safety is a key priority. she says more needs to be done in the form of resource officers or extra staff security. she's concerned the school is not safe. >> it is really, really hard. i think if this girl's parents saw somebody doing this to their child, they would feel the same

way and want the same changes that we all want at school. dion: happening tomorrow, about 2000 kaiser metal health clinicians will go on strike. workers want raises and for kaiser to hire more therapists. kaiser says the union's primary demand is for members to spend less time seeing patients. coming up, the effort to protect more people against monkeypox in the bay area. we take a look at the clinics held today. and a little later, a brutal arrest is caught on video. what happened to the officers seen violently arresting a man and what the suspect is accused of doing. >> it is cooler now than at this time last night, which may mean a better nights sleep, but tomorrow, the heat returns. i will have the accuweath

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dion: an expanded effort today to combat monkeypox in the bay area. we saw vaccination clinics open in the north and east bay today. cornell barnard was there. >> that redness, swelling. cornell: fernando barreto was among the first in line to get a monkeypox vaccine sunday. >> i just got my first dose of the vaccine, and i'm excited about it and a little bit less stressed. cornell: fernando says he has waited for weeks to find a shot. >> it has been hard for me to get access to the vaccine. i called several times my of care provider. cornell: this clinic and picnic

provided access to more than 120 doses, hosted by the spahr lgbtq center. >> we have been advocating every single day to get an appropriate and fair allocation of doses former and county. cornell: but many of those doses have been slow to arrive from the federal government. officials are calling for a more streamlined and equitable process. >> the last thing we need is county fighting county about who is getting more and who is getting less. we need more vaccinations and we cornell: cases of monkeypox are incr across the bay area. san francisco reporting more than 600 cases. alameda and enter clara counties with more than 100 each. nationally, more than 14,000 americans have been infected with monkeypox since may. the white house stepping up its efforts to contain and quell the outbreak, rolling out an additional 360 thousand files up

vaccine doses last week. the cdc reports 93% of cases are among men who reported recent sexual activity with other men but warns anyone can be at risk for catching monkeypox. fernando says there is no time to waste getting the vaccine to those who need it. >> i believe this is a right and this is the moment right now to really make sure anyone can have access to the vaccine. dion: we do have everything you need to know about monkeypox, including vaccines, symptoms, and treatment. find it all on our website, abc7news.com. a sonoma county restaurant celebrated its 20th anniversary with a big already today. it was a special gathering for the owners and patrons of willey's wine bar. the original location was destroyed in the tubbs fire. the owners said they were not sure if they would never reopen. >> we kind of went back and orth on if we should open another

place unless we found the right location, and this building is in our neighborhood. we live in this community, so that's when we decided it was ok to pursue reopening willie's wine bar. dion: that is awesome. willie's new location reopened in 2019 about four miles from its original location. ♪ ok, i did not even know this was a thing. today was the final day of the accordion festival. organizers sent us this video of crowds gathered at love plaza. numerous artists performed, and this was the 31st year of the festival. i feel like you know how to hula hoop. you have all these random skills. is accordion one of them? spencer: don't play the accordion, but i can give you the weather accordion to me.

dion: ooh, good one. spencer: wind speeds right now very quite widely from 24 miles an hour at rio vista to comb wind at some other locations. it is really pretty mild right now. temperature change pretty mild right now. cooler in most locations tonight and last night. here is a live view from our rooftop camera here at abc 7 looking across the embarcadero. 60 in oakland. low to mid 60's in palo alto, san jose, santa clara 59 at half moon bay. calm, cool night over the bay, though often in the distance, low clouds and fog are building. it is currently 57 degrees at santa rosa, low 60's at napa, fairfield, mid 60's concord and livermore. these are the forecast features we will see expanding overnight.

patchy drizzle in the morning hours, mainly offshore, but some may hit close to overnight. inland heat returns, i'm sorry to say, and we can expect a mild to warm week of -- mild to warm week ahead. we will see some drizzle along the coastline and offshore as well. the fog will push across the bay and locally inland during early morning hours. 7:00 tomorrow morning, there may be some spots as some of the drizzle may hit some of the roadways during the morning commute, but it will end quickly, giving way to a sunny and much warmer afternoon tomorrow then we had today. overnight lows will be mainly in the upper 50's, so relatively mild. highs tomorrow, mid to upper 60's at the coast, low to mid 80's around the bay shoreline and mid to upper 90's in lynn, up to about 100 at fairfield tomorrow, so the heat will return in our inland areas tomorrow. here's the accuweather 7-day forecast. notice a slight drop off in temperatures tuesday. still pretty toasty inland,

though, with highs in the mid-90's and mid 70's around the bay shoreline. then the steady pattern wednesday through saturday with inland areas right around upper 80's or 90 degrees. comfortable if you can get through the heat tomorrow and tuesday. dion: i feel like we can. thanks. just ahead, a celebration of all things italian today in the south bay. the sights, sounds, and

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dion: there was fun for the whole family today at italian family festa. the two-day event included wine tasting and live music, arts and crafts, and of course, italian food. >> we have the cannolis, the spaghetti and meatballs and the meatball sandwiches, we have polenta, italian sausage, and

stingy. oh, and ravioli. dion: svenge are italian donuts. let's get to chris alvarez with a preview of sports. chris: coming up in sports, the giants needing a win in the worst way. it was crazy in colorado. large out-of-state corporations have set their sights on california. they've written prop 27, to allow online sports betting.

they tell us it will fund programs for the homeless. but read prop 27's fine print. 90% of profits go to out-of-state corporations, leaving almost nothing for the homeless. no real jobs are created here. but the promise between our state and our sovereign tribes would be broken forever. these out-of-state corporations don't care about california. but we do. stand with us.

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to permanently fund getting people off the streets a prop 26? not a dime to solve homelessness prop 27 has strong protections to prevent minors from betting. prop 26? no protections for minors. prop 27 helps every tribe, including disadvantaged tribes. prop 26? nothing for disadvantaged tribes vote yes on 27. chris: going on a wild game win streak in getting back in the thick of it. the giants were in danger of dropping five straight and getting swept out of colorado. new is going to be a wild day

when this fan used his hat to catch a foul ball. watch this baseball go right through the glove. baseball is a weird game sometimes. top of the seven, game tied two. bases-loaded for evan longoria. there goes his first career grand slam as a giant, but bottom eight, randall cratchit ties it up. we are all knotted up at six apiece. for the second straight day, we go extra innings. giants up 7-6 in the 10th. thairo estrada scores. emotions pouring out of the dugout. they really need this win, but the rockies respond. charlie blackmon up the middle. we are tied at eight. in the 11th, wilmer flores, a runner on, this ends up being a sack lie to right. 9-8 giants. winton bernard at the plate. lamonte wade junior makes the

catch. five to third and he's called safe, but giants want to challenge and take a look. looks like longoria got him on the heel, and after review, the umpire says he's out. ballgame, giants win 9-8, snapping a four-game losing streak. >> we won the game, so at the end of the day, that is really all it is about. give that team credit, men. they kept battling back. it is like when you have games like this, obviously, you want to come out on the winning end, and i'm just happy we get to go and fly happy. i think this game took a lot out of us, but it's definitely a game that you win and you can build some momentum off of. hopefully we can enjoy the off day tomorrow and roll into detroit with spirits high. >> nice day at the coliseum for these fans. five strong, give up just one earned run, and swore us was all three strikeouts. ricky got his first hit at the

coliseum earlier in this game. eighth inning, first big-league triple, makes it 5-3 and snaps and 81-game streak without a triple for the a's. that was a record. did you see this today? 200 in the reda oak draw jimmy garoppolo every day challenge. we have highlighted our friend from portugal over the last few months and rita has stayed true to drawing a picture of garoppolo every day until he gets traded to the 49ers. how long will it last? only time will tell. dion: thanks. much more to come on abc 7 news at 11:00, including a violent arrest caught on camera. where this horrific incident took lays and what has happened to the officers involved. and as the popularity of cryptocurrency grows, so do the scam

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>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. dion: two sheriff's deputies and a police officer are off duty in arkansas after this incident. video shows officers punching and kicking a suspect while he is on the ground outside of a restaurant. authorities were called after the man reportedly threatened a clerk at a nearby gas station.

the county sheriff claims the man tried to attack officers for that recording started. all three officers are suspended pending the outcome of the investigation. first lady jill biden left isolation today while in south carolina after testing negative for covid. her comms director says the first lady isolated for five days and received negative results from two consecutive tests. she joined president biden today in delaware. the first lady tested positive monday while she and the president were vacationing in south carolina. it was the first time she had covid. an important update now from the i-team about a growing cryptocurrency scam that is targeting silicon valley investors. malicious apps are hacking into victims' phones, exposing personal information. >> this scam is evolving so fast, one wrong click could cost you your privacy. investigators say these scammers

are getting access to your entire phone, including your camera, your photos, your life, and even your exact location. all it takes is one wrong click, and your privacy may be exposed. >> i was shaking. i was collapsing. >> i feel so bad for my family for what i did to them. >> these are the altered forces of two bay area victims for a crypto scam known as pig butchering. this is when a scammer builds a relationship, metaphorically fattening them up like a pig, and the end goal is getting them to invest in crypto. cryptocurrency is not real cash but a digital currency exchanged through a digital network. this man we profiled last month lost 1.2 million dollars, his entire life savings, and his daughter's education fund. >> i lost my job.

>> same story with this woman. she ended her ira just as she was about to retire. more than one millions -- more than $1 million gone. >> pig butchering cases have tripled across california this year, specifically targeting asian americans in the bay area. >> the criminal organization is definitely expanding. >> just within the past three weeks, they were in the scam has a new threat. >> a lot -- they have a lot of access into your mobile device. >> the i-team sat down with the nation's first digital asset technology alliance, staffed by the u.s. secret service to crack down on these crimes. >> the apps are very compelling. if this turns up on your phone's home screen, it looks like any other app and provides a very convincing scheme. >> financial analyst explains victims caught up in this part the scheme are downloading counterfeit apps, which are

impersonating legitimate crypto trading companies. what happens when someone downloads this? >> first of all, it will require you to provide different permissions to your phone. >> once you download the counterfeit app, scammers are granted permissions to your device, and you may not even know it. >> those permissions include the ability to remotely turn on a microphone, the ability to remotely turn on a camera on your phone. >> and it is not just access to your device's microphone and camera, but also -- >> to your photos. actually, even your location device, and it can be as exact as your longitude and latitude and where you are actually located at the time. >> investigators say the suspect may also have the ability to read and write on the phone. >> some of the links or some of the counterfeit or malicious apps you are downloading to have read or write capability. that means they have access to your email.

>> in some cases, victims are provided a url to download an app via whatsapp or text messages. investigators say the links will take you to counterfeit sites which will require you to log in. >> the biggest red flag here is downloading any sort of mobile application outside of, again, the google play store and the apple app store. >> but keep in mind, some of the sites will try to trick you. >> some of these are meant to look like the apple app store. they will even have ratings. they will say that it is an apple-approved app. >> yet both the app and website are fake. the worst point -- >> you cannot just delete the app and think it is off your phone. >> the invasion of privacy persists even after deleting the app off your phone. >> it is very hard. every morning i woke up i feel

like is a nightmare. >> some of these sites appear like they are from the apple or google play store, so always chececk for that and any misspellings in the url. also keep in i out certain pop-ups. if you are in the process of downloading an a a random side, depending if you have an iphoandroid device, you may see a pop-up that says mobile config file or as you see on your screen, apk file. clicking on those is what gives scammers access to your device. dion: if you have a story for the i-team, you can go to your website or call the number on your screen. gas prices in the bay area remain well above the national average of $3.90. san francisco actually rose a penny according to aaa. now the average sits at five dollars 52 cents. across the bay in oakland, it is

a little cheaper at $5.39. two more communities in sonoma county are considering a ban on new gas stations. "the press democrat" is reporting santa rosa may adopt measures already in place in other areas of the coalition opposing new gas stations is spearheading the push. the organization was started in sonoma county and says the goal is to get local governments to transition away from using fossil fuels. the city of oakland is in a legal fight similar to one san francisco already lost. it is an effort to allow noncitizens to vote in a school board elections. the same organizations and law firm that won the san francisco case are now suing oakland officials to keep the proposal off the november ballot. they are arguing the oakland measure should be pulled because it has already been proven to be

unconstitutional. san francisco voters extended voting rights to noncitizens for school board elections in 2016. the board of supervisors added the law indefinitely in 2021. last month, the san francisco superior court judge ruled the decision was unconstitutional. still ahead, dramatic video shows flash floods sweeping through multiple national parks, and these monsoon rains are not done yet. >> it may feel like a little morning drizzle followed by a toasty inland afternoon. toasty inland afternoon. i will h i'm bringing back two of my fan favorites, french toast sticks and my former employee mark hamill. jack? let's do this! okay?

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a flash flood in utah. will: dramatic new images showing a surge of monsoon floodwaters reaching their new mexico's carlsbad caverns national park. heavy rain stranding around 150 people inside the park. flash flooding over taking one of the main roads nearby, sparking a shelter in place order. this family was visiting caverns from albuquerque, exploring the caves with their kids when park rangers told them they needed to evacuate. >> nobody knew what time we could leave. with that maybe a couple of hours. we did not realize we could be there all night. >> after hours of waiting, they were finally given the ok to leave the park. it was almost midnight. in utah, authorities desperately searching for a missing hiker, swept off her feet when raging fire suddenly overwhelmed the group she was with in zion national. only her backpack was found. overnight in arizona, high wind

and heavy rain, lightning lighting up the lights got -- lightning lighting up the night sky in phoenix. every weather station in arizona and new mexico reporting above average rainfall this summer. we are expecting a lot of rain in texas over the next couple of days, and, boy, do they need it with a rain deficit of more than of across the area -- more than a foot across the area, but too much too fast could cause flooding. dion: we have talked about global warming and how the trends have changed so much the last few years. spencer: they absolutely have. those storms moving into places like louisiana, mississippi, the gulf coast states, so there will be more flooding probably in those areas. it is a difficult situation there. here we have calm conditions. just a little coastal drizzle, may a spot or two will hit some

of the pavement, but it will not be very widespread. another sunny afternoon and a much warmer day than we had today. overnight low temperatures will be mainly in the upper 50's. highs tomorrow, upper 60's at the coast, low to mid 80's at the bayshore line. the inland heat is coming back. here's the accuweather 7-day forecast. heat will ease up a little bit on tuesday, but there will be for -- further cooling wednesday, and that pattern that result on wednesday will continue into the weekend with high temperatures inland only around 90 degrees or perhaps just above. we do have a couple of days of rather warm to hot weather coming our way the next couple of days. dion: do we have any sites of rain in the forecast? spencer: i'm afraid we don't. it is not reasonable to expect any significant rain until the fall, and even then, if the last two falls are any indication, we should not have our expectations too high.

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chris: the 49er starting quarterback trey lance and most of the starters did not play in the game against the vikings. they will play in the dress rehearsal starting night against houston. the niners open the regular season chicago. the defense figures to be a strength of this year's squad and for the second straight game, they forced three turnovers. george odom stopping the vikings' drive with an intersection, and turner punching up the ball on the punt return and samuel womack iii

recovers the football. in the fourth quarter, you will see taylor hawkins' interception to seal the deal with about 2.5 left in the game and after that win, plenty of goodbyes to go around. >> really, just trying to get better and -- trying to get better each and every day and trying to figure out what in this game could have got me better. >> practicing, bringing it to the game and good things happening for me to keep going hard every day and keep getting better and hopefully when the season come, good things will keep happening. >> while trey lance did not play, he certainly enjoyed the trip. he is from minnesota and kids from his high school were at practice this week. he graduated high school in 2018 and at just 22 years old, he is still one of the youngest quarterbacks in all the nfl. several guys taken in the draft this spring are actually older, believe it or not. he seems to be taking it all in stride. >> that was always the dream, and it happened fast, but i'm excited to be here.

i see my family, i see some friends, but it's work at this point. but it's fun, obviously. going to get a couple great days of work in practice and then traveling and getting a hotel and spinning a lot of time with the guys. chris: a's ricky and top prospect shay l'engle ears has been in the big leagues less than a week but has already made a huge impact -- a's rookie and top prospect shea langeliers. his key to success -- staying focused on the task at hand. >> the more you can calm your mind down and just be there ready to hit, i don't want to say the easier the game is because the game is really hard, but you put yourself in a better position to succeed. i'm just a timing-wise, trying to start early, give myself as much time as possible to recognize the pitch and put a

good spin on it. chris: the worry is the lakers opening night october 18, nice night for a ring ceremony. the nba champs open with four of their first five games at home. december 10 is an nba finals rematch against the celtics right here on abc 7. other murky games include laying on martin luther king jr. day in d.c. and a special game in san antonio at the 65,000-seat alamo dome. they are trying to set an attendance record. five of six games on abc 7 are home games. the grids on christmas, then the mavs, the lakers twice including a sunday afternoon game, and finally against the bucks on march 11. the crypt -- the christmas game might be a favorite of the gm. >> the christmas game usually features the premier teams in the league. growing up a warriors fan and not seeing us play on christmas day for a number of years, it is nice to be a injured onset staple. it signifies we are one of the

premier teams in the league, and it's always nice to be distinguished like that. chris: earlier this week, the cal football team had some special visitors stop by. guide dogs for the blind needing foster parents for those puppies. not just football parents, but anyone willing to take on a dog. >> i just remembered that it changed his life significantly. i have an appreciation personally for it. this is nothing that we mandate for our players, but a number of them looked to be eagerly awaiting their opportunity to help out at some point. >> just relax, take our minds off of football. >> for people like me who are blind and work with a guy down, it makes all the difference in the world, so we are super excited that we can maybe get the word out about becoming a volunteer for guide dogs for the

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